Apparently, Mora is not a popular spot for backpackers because the one and only hostel in town only had one occupant other than me, a guy from Michigan. He had just finished his masters degree at Malmo (southern Sweden) and he told me several things about the country that I didn't know. Apparently, up until this year, college tuition in Sweden was free for all students, even foreigners. Now it only applies to EU residents. But this guy I was talking to got in before the cutoff, so he got his degree tuition-free. Also, he said that Sweden accepts a large number of refugees from Afghanistan and Iraq even though it didn't participate in those wars (correction - Sweden did participate in the Afghanistan war as part of NATO).
You would think that a free college education is something most Swedes would take advantage of, but many of the young people we talked to had decided not to go. I guess if they wanted to stay in a small town, like Mora, then they wouldn't really need a degree.
To fix an epidemic of alcoholism, the Swedish government made alcohol tightly controlled and very expensive. The running joke around here is that the Swedes go to Denmark to buy liquor. The Danes go to Germany to buy it. And the Germans go to Poland.